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Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger

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Jun 26, 2012 10:15AM

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1984

by George Orwell

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Jun 26, 2012 10:14AM

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

tags: beauty, control, diet, fad, feminism, feminist, food, myth, obedience

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